{"id":243064,"date":"2010-01-28T16:27:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-28T21:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5587346.post-593993927617627147"},"modified":"2010-01-28T16:27:08","modified_gmt":"2010-01-28T21:27:08","slug":"ipad-take-2-the-end-of-os-x","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/243064","title":{"rendered":"iPad take 2: the end of OS X"},"content":{"rendered":"

When a colleague asked why the iPad runs iPhone OS rather than OS X a wee bulb went off. Kind of like those little bittie bulbs that came with a camera flash in 1967.<\/p>\n

The iPad with iPhone OS is the second coming of the original Macintosh. It runs an OS that anyone can use, including the 50% of the US that doesn\u2019t really engage with the net or with personal computers. This is the OS for all those people who keep every photograph they\u2019ve taken on a 4GB flash card in their camera.<\/p>\n

Yes, I know the first Mac soon became far more complex. Twenty-five years ago the personal computer was growing into a geek market. Satisfying that market meant the platform became more and more powerful. That increasing power pleased geeks like me — for a while. Even we, however, noticed that it was a lot of work to keep these machines happy. <\/p>\n

Around the same time, a poor grad student in 1986 accidentally unleashed an internet worm<\/a>. We know what came after. Security issues combined with platform complexity to give us a world in which non-geeks shouldn\u2019t touch a connected computer.<\/p>\n

The iPad and the App Store though, that can work for most anyone. The dependency on iTunes will fade away over time \u2013 look soon for online backup. I assume there will be viruses, but the iPhone world will be a very tough, locked down, target.<\/p>\n

Chrome OS will be playing in the same big field \u2013 non-geek computing.<\/p>\n

The geek environments won\u2019t go away immediately, but the end is in sight. Ten years from now we may say that the iPad killed OS X.<\/p>\n

My first iPad impressions<\/a> were cautiously positive. I think I missed the real target. The iPad isn\u2019t aimed at Microsoft or Google or even the Macbook. It\u2019s aimed at everything.<\/p>\n

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When a colleague asked why the iPad runs iPhone OS rather than OS X a wee bulb went off. Kind of like those little bittie bulbs that came with a camera flash in 1967. The iPad with iPhone OS is the second coming of the original Macintosh. It runs an OS that anyone can use, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":711,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-243064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243064","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/711"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=243064"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243064\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}